Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you - slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been bef…

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutio…

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

It was very nice of her to come over to Moscow and thank me for saving the life of her grandfather, Churchill.

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting…